Kowloon Mosque says it will follow every social distancing rule required by the government so it can reopen in time for Muslims to pray there during at least part of the holy month of Ramadan. The government had said Covid restrictions will be rela...

The Federation of Education Workers said on Tuesday that more than 70 percent of teachers are opposed to the plan to resume face-to-face classes on April 19. The group said the findings come from a survey it carried out involving more than 1,300 te...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday welcomed seven mainland Chinese medicine experts at the border as they arrived to help with Hong Kong's Covid fight. The delegation joins more than 300 mainland healthcare workers already in the city, and they w...

Government medical adviser David Hui has expressed concern that public gatherings during the upcoming Ching Ming Festival and Easter holidays will cause a rebound in Covid infections. On an RTHK show on Tuesday, Hui said the epidemic is slowly easi...

A lawmaker on Tuesday called on the government to issue guidelines to ensure children infected with Covid-19 won’t be separated from their parents or caregivers. The Hospital Authority has been criticised for separating sick children from their pa...

The Social Welfare Department said new arrangements will come into effect from Tuesday to allow holding centres in different districts to admit more residents from residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs) who have Covid-19 - but with only mild ...

Police arrested a 37-year-old woman on Monday afternoon for allegedly leaving faeces inside one of the rooms of a makeshift hospital at Lok Ma Chau. The facility is one of those constructed with the help from Beijing to house Covid-19 patients. Off...

Cathay Pacific said on Monday that it will resume its cadet pilot training programme after a two-year suspension, as it is seeking to recruit more than 800 local cockpit crew by 2025. The flagship carrier’s staff had shrunk drastically after it a...

The government on Monday gazetted 20 mandatory Covid testing notices for locations in Chai Wan, Shau Kei Wan, Tsueng Kwan O, Diamond Hill, Lam Tin, Sha Tin, Tai Po, Ma On Shan, Tin Shui Wai, Sheung Shui, Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan, Tsing Yi, Fanling and T...

The MTR Corporation said on Monday that ticket prices will remain at the current levels this year, and the 3.8 percent fare rebate will also be extended till the beginning of next year. The company has to freeze its fares based on a price setting f...

The number of new coronavirus cases in Hong Kong fell further on Monday to 7,685.   That’s down from 8,037 recorded on Sunday and the third day in a row the tally has stayed below five digits. Of the new infections, 3,227 were confirmed by PCR te...

Health authorities on Monday sealed off three public housing blocks in Tsuen Wan, Tai Po and Fanling to test residents for Covid, after sewage samples there were found to contain the virus. People living in Chung Shue House of Lei Muk Shue (II) Esta...

Hong Kong Disneyland is set to reopen on April 21 as the government relaxes social distancing rules, but will operate at half capacity at the beginning. This was revealed at a Legco panel meeting on Monday, where Commerce and Economic Development S...

A truck drivers’ union has called on mainland and SAR authorities to consider relaxing epidemic control measures on the delivery of goods across the border, saying the current rules have put around 90 percent of cross-border truck drivers out of wo...

The government on Monday found 110 preliminary positive cases after locking down three buildings in Fanling, Aberdeen and Tai Po. Around 2,700 residents of Block 5 at Dawning Views, Lei Tim House at Ap Lei Chau Estate and Kwong Yee House at Kwong Fu...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Monday that the government has not “given up” on carrying out a universal Covid testing exercise. “Whatever we do now, we also bear in mind that we have this exercise in mind. We have not given up doing a uni...

Tourism sector lawmaker Perry Yiu has urged authorities to ease the threshold regarding the number of Covid infections among passengers that triggers a suspension of flights, saying the current rules are too strict. The government earlier announced ...

The secretary of police commissioner Raymond Siu has tested preliminary positive for Covid-19, the force said on Monday. A government statement said Siu’s rapid test came back negative. It said the secretary last worked on March 17 and had not b...

A paediatrician on Monday said a second dose of Covid vaccine would significantly improve protection for children, saying it would act as a “barrier” against a possible rebound in infections when coronavirus restrictions are relaxed. The governm...

The government on Sunday gazetted 15 mandatory Covid testing notices for locations in Tsing Yi, Shau Kei Wan, Tuen Mun, Kwai Chung, Sha Tin, Tsz Wan Shan, Kwun Tong, Lam Tin, Wong Tai Sin, Tsuen Wan, Yuen Long, Ngau Chi Wan and Tai Po. People stayin...